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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.
Lev Grossman
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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
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Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
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Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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You're saying the gods don't have free will. The power to make mistakes, Penny said. Only we have that. Mortals
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I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
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Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
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